About a week ago I went to an erotic massage salon for a body-to-body massage. This involved body sliding on the back and front, fingering and a handjob, but no penetrative sex.

During the body sliding it is hard to say if there could have been brief contact between genitals. 

I would like to ask if based on these events you recommend testing for any STIs.

Many thanks

This event carried little or no risk of any STI. Certainly the general skin-to-skin contact carried little or no risk, and even brief genital-genital contact is risk free. In theory, direct genital-genital contact without penetration could carry small risk for the STIs transmitted primarily by skin contact (herpes, HPV, syphilis). However, these all require the infecting bacteria or virus to be massaged into exposed tissues. (This is why the first lesions of all three of these STIs occur mostly on the penis, or near the vaginal or anal openings:  these are the sites that typically receive repeated contact and friction during sex.) Since you don't even know if genital-genital contact occurred, any that did happen had to have been very brief and not vigorous.

For those reasons, I would consider this an entirely risk free exposure for any and all STIs. I do not recommend testing for anything. If you have a regular sex partner, you can continue your normal sexual practices with that person with no risk of STI transmission.

I hope these comments are helpful. Let me know if anything isn't clear.

HHH, MD